November, 2013
PREDA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2013
November 30, 2013 ·
OCTOBER 2013 PREDA SPORTS FESTIVAL 2013. The PREDA staffers, volunteers and youth had a fun-filled sports festival last October. This is to celebrate the rights of children bring about greater awareness by adults to give encouragement, inspiration, good example, affirmation, love and protection to children and youth. It’s a positive way to tell the world that children don’t need punishment and it […]
Read More...180 years after abolition, why is it the slave trade is booming?
November 23, 2013 ·
Danny Smith The Guardian, Friday 22 November 2013 20.02 GMT We equate slavery with a bygone age. But as the case of three women found in a London house shows, it is far from dead Three women enslaved in an ordinary London house for 30 years: this is shocking. But it should not be […]
Read More...EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE AFTERMATH OF TYPHOON YOLANDA
November 22, 2013 ·
BY FR. SHAY CULLEN I flew into Cebu City, an hours flight from Manila and drove with two Preda staff starting 3 am to visit the northern towns of Cebu Island on Tuesday, 19 November. The goal was to reach Daanbantayan, Bogo,and Bantayan Island to assess the storm damage, visit their communities and understand the situation […]
Read More...66 Australians arrested as Canadian police smash 'horrific' child sex abuse ring
November 16, 2013 ·
Sixty-six Australians are among more than 300 people arrested after Canadian authorities smashed what they say is one of the worst child sex abuse rings they have seen. Canadian police say their investigation into a multi-million-dollar child sex abuse video website has led to the arrests of nearly 350 people internationally, including teachers, police officers, […]
Read More...“It’s time to stop this madness” – Philippines plea at UN climate talks
November 14, 2013 ·
Mr. President, I have the honor to speak on behalf of the resilient people of the Republic of the Philippines. At the onset, allow me to fully associate my delegation with the statement made by the distinguished Ambassador of the Republic of Fiji, on behalf of G77 and China as well as the statement made […]
Read More...Typhoid and cholera threat in Philippines
November 13, 2013 ·
JOYCE FEGAN – 13 NOVEMBER 2013 Typhoid and cholera are now threatening the worst hit parts of the Philippines after typhoon Yolanda because aid is slow to arrive, says Fr Shay Cullen who is based there. Food distribution is incredibly slow and a large plane carrying aid is currently stuck in Cebu, the only airport […]
Read More...THE LOST ORPHANS OF YOLANDA
November 13, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen 12 November 2013 Besides the thousands that have been killed, injured, and made homeless by the most devastating typhoon known to humankind, the orphaned children are the most vulnerable. Their towns and villages and homes are no more and their parents are dead. They are threatened by malnutrition, kidnapping, and abduction. Horrible […]
Read More...SAVING THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
November 8, 2013 ·
by Fr. Shay Cullen Nov. 10, 2013 She was only 14 years old when brought from a distant town, and she was lured into a relationship with a middle-aged American and became his live-in sex partner. He called her “Chocolate”, a racist term. In a conversation with reporters from ABC Television New York using a hidden […]
Read More...Global swoop on suspected paedophiles
November 5, 2013 ·
The Mail on Line http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-86679/Global-swoop-suspected-paedophiles.html Seven people were arrested in dawn raids in the UK today as part of the world’s largest ever co-ordinated police crackdown on paedophiles, the National Crime Squad (NCS) said. Police in 19 countries carried out 130 arrest and search warrants in an “unprecedented” operation which targeted Internet users who […]
Read More...Activists ensnare thousands of online paedophiles using 10-year-old Filipino girl – who doesn’t exist.
November 5, 2013 ·
ADAM WITHNALL The Independent TUESDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2013 Campaign group Terres des Hommes say they have identified a sinister phenomenon of internet users who are willing to pay to for ‘webcam child sex abuse’ A group campaigning against child sex exploitation has run an online sting operation which caught thousands of paedophiles trying to solicit a […]
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